Philippines, People In Costumes, Coloured Steel Engraving From Ca. 1850
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Philippines, People in Costumes, , original coloured steel engraving from ca. 1850. This is an original steel engraving from 1850. No printed text on the back! Age browning!Size of the image: 11, 5 x16, 5 cm (4, 5 x 5, 3 inches).The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas), isan archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western PacificOcean, it consists of about 7, 641 islands that are categorized broadly underthree m...ain geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, andMindanao. The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populouscity is Quezon City, both part of Metro Manila. Bounded by the South China Seaon the west, the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on thesouthwest, the Philippines shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Vietnam to the west, Palau to the east, and Malaysia and Indonesia to thesouth.The Philippines'location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and close to the equator makes thePhilippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons, but also endows it with abundantnatural resources and some of the world's greatest biodiversity. ThePhilippines has an area of 300, 000 km2 (120, 000 sq mi), according to thePhilippines Statistical Authority and the WorldBank and, as of 2015, had apopulation of at least 100 million. As of January 2018, it is the eighth-mostpopulated country in Asia and the 12th most populated country in the world. Approximately10 million additional Filipinos lived overseas, comprising one of the world'slargest diasporas. Multiple ethnicities and cultures are found throughout theislands. In prehistoric times, Negritos were some of the archipelago's earliestinhabitants. They were followed by successive waves of Austronesian peoples.Exchanges with Malay, Indian, Arab and Chinese nations occurred. Then, variouscompeting maritime states were established under the rule of datus, rajahs, sultans and lakans.COMBINED SHIPPING POSSIBLE!!!
